Introducing Streamhouse: the open data architecture for AI | Learn More
Confluent
Aiven, Confluent, Redpanda, StreamNative and Ververica Form Streamhouse Working Group
New industry initiative establishes an open category for data architectures that power real-time applications and AI agents
KCP: How to Migrate to Confluent Cloud in Days, Not Weeks
Learn how to migrate to Confluent Cloud in hours using Confluent’s open source Kafka Copy Paste tool. Get an in-depth introduction to the KCP tool and a walk-through of the four steps of migrating from MSK to Confluent Cloud using the tool.
AI Tools for Builders — Confluent's MCP Server & Agent Skills
Confluent's AI developer tools are now GA: an open-source local MCP server, a managed MCP server, and Agent Skills. Together they give AI coding assistants direct access to your streaming platform — the tools to act on it and the domain knowledge to build correctly.
Getting Started with Protobuf in Confluent Cloud
Confluent Cloud supports Schema Registry as a fully managed service that allows you to easily manage schemas used across topics, with Apache Kafka® as a central nervous system that connects […]
Monitoring Confluent Platform with Datadog
Earning customer love is a core value at Confluent, and like all relationships, listening makes the love flourish. When it comes to monitoring, we’ve heard you, and we are pleased […]
Project Metamorphosis Month 1: Elastic Apache Kafka Clusters in Confluent Cloud
A few weeks ago when we talked about our new fundraising, we also announced we’d be kicking off Project Metamorphosis. What is Project Metamorphosis? Let me try to explain. I […]
Measuring Code Coverage of Golang Binaries with Bincover
Measuring coverage of Go code is an easy task with the built-in go test tool, but for tests that run a binary, like end-to-end tests, there’s no obvious way to […]
Confluent Platform Now Supports Protobuf, JSON Schema, and Custom Formats
When Confluent Schema Registry was first introduced, Apache Avro™ was initially chosen as the default format. While Avro has worked well for many users, over the years, we’ve received many […]
Introducing Confluent Platform 5.5
We are pleased to announce the release of Confluent Platform 5.5. With this release, Confluent makes event streaming more broadly accessible to developers of all backgrounds, enhancing three categories of […]
How the New Confluent Hub Makes Finding Connectors Easier Than Ever
Confluent Hub launched in 2018 as a place to discover and share Apache Kafka® and Confluent Platform plugins. Users have found the site a much better place to discover useful […]
Confluent Cloud KSQL is Now Available
Today, we are excited to announce that after a highly productive period of being in private preview, Confluent Cloud KSQL is now production ready and available to all Confluent Cloud […]
Stable, Secure Apache Kafka as a Service – A Cloud Provider’s Tale
Running fully managed Apache Kafka® as a service brings many responsibilities that leading cloud providers hide well. There is a reason why cloud services are so popular right now— companies realize […]
Building Confluent Cloud – Here’s What We’ve Learned
In July 2017, Confluent launched a private preview of what would later be known as Confluent Cloud. This platform as a service product has grown rapidly; less than three years […]
Building a Cloud ETL Pipeline on Confluent Cloud
As enterprises move more and more of their applications to the cloud, they are also moving their on-prem ETL pipelines to the cloud, as well as building new ones. There […]
15 Things Every Apache Kafka Engineer Should Know About Confluent Replicator
Single-cluster deployments of Apache Kafka® are rare. Most medium to large deployments employ more than one Kafka cluster, and even the smallest use cases include development, testing, and production clusters. […]
Mock APIs vs. Real Backends – Getting the Best of Both Worlds
When building API-driven web applications, there is one key metric that engineering teams should minimize: the blocked factor. The blocked factor measures how much time developers spend in the following […]
Celebrating Over 100 Supported Apache Kafka Connectors
We just released Confluent Platform 5.4, which is one of our most important releases to date in terms of the features we’ve delivered to help enterprises take Apache Kafka® and […]